Fotini Diamantidaki is a Lecturer in Education at the UCL Institute of Education, University of London UK. She is the co-founder and joint chief editor of the International Journal of Education Innovation and Communication (JEICOM), Vice-president of research and academic affairs of http://coming.gr and editorial board member of the Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching (JALT). Her research interests include the integration of literature in the language classroom in combination with the internet and the digital technologies as well as the integration of world languages into the curriculum. Teacher education pedagogy and learning how to teach are fundamental strands to her research interests combined with cultural and intercultural education in classroom and higher education contexts and the role of digital technologies in education. Over the years, she has received various small grands for developing various secondary school based projects. Her two most recent books have initiated the debate on the teaching of Literature in the Modern Foreign Languages classroom and on issues in Mandarin teacher education.